Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | The loss of such a man at most other clubs would have spelt disaster , but Chapman had foreseen the danger and the solid foundations he had built at the club enabled Arsenal to win another League Championship the following year . |
| 2 | Within eight hours she had developed central abdominal pain , vomiting , and distension . |
| 3 | I was cold and hungry — in eight hours I had only had three tangerines — and I throbbed from toes to groin . |
| 4 | Three Shadow Cabinet members gave TV interviews which repudiated economic policies they had agreed just five days earlier . |
| 5 | Most Greek religious festivals occurred at or near full moon , but since they were associated with agricultural activities they had to take place at the appropriate times of the year . |
| 6 | ‘ Three of us were elected to Exhibitions at the same time , and I recall the maturity of his literary powers as contrasted with the callow essays we had to take up to Owen M. Edwards each week . ’ |
| 7 | But diversifying companies found it much harder to exploit economies of scale and scope in these new fields — usually , says Mr Chandler , because they failed to make the same kind of first-mover investments they had made in their primary businesses . |
| 8 | Her diet was mostly handfuls of peanuts and crisps from private views she had attended . |
| 9 | Many Koreans were affronted at the liberation of August 1945 being followed by the continued presence of Japanese and of the odious methods they had employed to suppress dissent . |
| 10 | Through its low branches I had a latticed view of the buildings that made up my home . |
| 11 | For Wilson , Sting 's success , and the prodigious royalties it had earned for Virgin , was merely one feather in an increasingly crowded cap . |
| 12 | As ever , it would be the climax ; this time the climax of one of the finest performances he had ever witnessed . |
| 13 | This was the first of the new weekly meetings he had initiated . |
| 14 | I piled the kids and what few possessions we had into the pram and , balancing the baby bath on the hood , walked the few miles back to my Pop 's house . |
| 15 | Not only were they the longest hours they had ever been called upon to endure , but the coldest . |
| 16 | The extent of their happiness as they read and wrote , and walked the Dorset lanes , was in proportion to the unsettled times they had often known until then . |
| 17 | Fly half Jon Bland kept City going forward after the break with some long wind-assisted touch kicks and within 12 minutes he had landed two penalties to put City 10–6 ahead . |
| 18 | But if Berowne had been seeking a moment for further confidences it had disappeared . |
| 19 | The sniping was increasing and I had to move away to help guard some German prisoners we had collected in the action . |
| 20 | One of his old associates he had chatted to in the bar a couple of nights previously , had mentioned how much he enjoyed his regular visits to the Turkish baths in Gloucester . |
| 21 | The visibility was poor and on the outward journey she merely concentrated on her driving while Freddie , on the back seat , studied some notes he had brought with him . |
| 22 | Ibn Fayoud looked at the place settings , noting that the few racing contacts he had been obliged to invite had sensibly been distributed among the more amusing people who had come up from London . |
| 23 | In fact , it was one of the few times I had seen him act in a civil way towards his stepmother . |
| 24 | When he had learnt that Miss Alicia Lockwood , whom he considered one of the most charming and fascinating old dears he had ever met , had been mad enough to leave him half her beautiful and fantastic house , for one wild and quixotic moment Matthew had thought of refusing the legacy . |
| 25 | At the rear of many French houses I had noticed several rabbit-hutches containing the largest rabbits I had ever seen , certainly larger than anything in Britain . |
| 26 | Within a few minutes he had noticed a scruffy individual walk into the Oak public house , Stoke Row . |
| 27 | After a few minutes he had spoken again . |
| 28 | For the next few minutes I had to put up with Sid 's reminiscences about how much worse it had been during the campaign in North Africa . |
| 29 | I took Oliver 's flowers , and fed them petal-first into the grinder , and in just a few minutes I had reduced his gift to a sludge which the cold water was washing away down the waste-pipe . |
| 30 | He led me to his house and in a few minutes I had diagnosed the trouble — a flat battery . |